1SLEEP(1) User Commands SLEEP(1)
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6 sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
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9 sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
10 sleep OPTION
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13 Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default),
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24 Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
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27 GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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31 Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
32 GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
33 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
34 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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39 Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
40 or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'
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44GNU coreutils 8.31 March 2019 SLEEP(1)